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Assessment of the Portuguese building thermal code: Newly revised requirements for cooling energy needs used to prevent the overheating of buildings in the summer
Oliveira Panão, Marta J.N.; Camelo, Susana M.L.; … - In: Energy 36 (2011) 5, pp. 3262-3271
In this paper, cooling energy needs are calculated by the steady-state methodology of the Portuguese building thermal code. After the first period of building code implementation, re-evaluation according to EN ISO 13790 is recommended in order to compare results with the dynamic simulation...
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Public opinion on renewable energy technologies in Portugal
Ribeiro, Fernando; Ferreira, Paula; Araújo, Madalena; … - In: Energy 69 (2014) C, pp. 39-50
The public opinion on renewable energy technologies was analyzed by means of a survey implemented in Portugal. The …
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Is there duration dependence in Portuguese local governments' tenure?
Castro, Vítor; Martins, Rodrigo - In: European Journal of Political Economy 31 (2013) C, pp. 26-39
This paper analyses the presence of duration dependence in Portuguese local governments' tenure employing continuous and discrete-time duration analyses over a set of spells of time in office for the period 1979–2005. Our results show that the more time a party remains in office, the higher is...
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El Tomo 4º del «Diccionario Crítico de Juristas Españoles, Portugueses y Latinoamericanos (Hispánicos, Brasileños, Quebequenses y Restantes Francófonos)», de septiembre de 2012...
Arjona, Elena Sáez - In: Revista Crítica de Historia de las Relaciones … (2014) 9
La publicación del tomo 4º de la colección del «Diccionario crítico de juristas españoles, portugueses y latinoamericanos (hispánicos, brasileños, quebequenses y restantes francófonos)» se ha llevado a cabo en septiembre de 2012. Aparentemente era el penúltimo tomo, pero por razones...
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Does FDI increase market concentration? An evaluation of the Portuguese manufacturing industries
Forte, Rosa; Sarmento, Paula - In: Acta Oeconomica 64 (2014) December, pp. 463-480
concentration, and it is the first study on this topic applied to Portugal. …
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Caixa Geral de Aposentações: why social responsibility is needed?
Abreu, Rute; David, Fátima - In: Global Business and Economics Review 14 (2012) 1/2, pp. 125-138
This paper examines annual reports of the Caixa Geral de Aposentações (CGA) that administers the Portuguese pension program for civil servants (retirement, survivor and other minor special pensions). Our results suggest that constant changes in laws and regulations distort the real purpose of...
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Cooperation for innovation: evidence from southern European countries
Nunes, Sandra; Carvalho, Luísa; Costa, Teresa - In: International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development 5 (2013) 2, pp. 226-241
Europe (Portugal, Spain, Greece and Italy) and analyses how R%D, incoming spillovers, public support, appropriability of …
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International trade patterns and labour markets – an empirical analysis for EU member states
Zeddies, Goetz - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 96-115
During the last decades, international trade flows of the industrialised countries became more and more intra-industry. At the same time, employment perspectives particularly of the low skilled by tendency deteriorated in these countries. This phenomenon is often traced back to the fact that...
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Controversial issues in factors determining intra-industry trade
Ferto, Imre; Soós, Károly Attila - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 132-148
We examine some controversial country-specific factors influencing vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade including foreign direct investment and income distributions. As concerns, the effect of differences in countries’ levels of economic development (richness), both theories and...
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Cooperation networks as a mechanism for strengthening territorial competitiveness: the case of the Qualifica Association
Franco, Mário; Belo, Manuel - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 9 (2013) 4, pp. 421-443
this end, a qualitative investigation approach was adopted, by means of a case/network study - the Qualifica Association … obtained, it was concluded that the relationship structure of the network studied is based on behavioural relations and giving … presents implications for agents involved in a territorial cooperation network and suggests lines of future investigation in …
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